ZIP 07017 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Essex County, New Jersey, ZIP 07017 scores 24 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (54/100), construction/permit lag (31/100), institutional ownership (20/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100). Structurally it carries 54/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.2% over the trailing year, and 30% higher over three years (phase confidence 35/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

A median home runs $374,800 here, or 5.2 times local income. There are about 16,685 housing units across 07017. Households earn a median $61,552 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 41% of renters are cost-burdened. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 41/100. The vacancy rate is 4.5%. Around 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 31% of housing is owner-occupied. 17.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 40,809 residents call 07017 home, typically aged 36.

Net-net, 07017 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 07017 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 07017 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 24/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 07017 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Essex County, New Jersey. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 07017, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 24/100 figure for 07017 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For an operator, 07017 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.